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Landguard Fort is a fort at the mouth of the River Orwell outside Felixstowe, Suffolk, designed to guard the mouth of the river.
In 1667, the Dutch, landed a force of 2,000 men on Felixstowe beach in front of (what is now called) Undercliff Road East and advanced on to the fort, but were repulsed by Nathaniel Darrel and his garrison of 400 musketeers of the Duke of York & Albany's Maritime Regiment (the first Royal Marines).
This was the last opposed invasion of England.
The Fort has been rebuilt and remodelled many times and after a long and fascinating history is now owned by English Heritage.
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In some cases, EXDO posts have built-in defences designed from the outset (Coalhouse Fort, Tilbury) though in this case the complicated entrance arrangements for the pillbox and the fact that it has a blocked embrasure, makes this unlikely. Additionally, the EXDO blocks the arc of fire of the earlier World War Two Type-22 pillbox.
The EXDO post is therefore probably built precisely over the earlier pillbox, probably of early World War Two date. In plan it is an irregular pentagon with sides of 19ft 3in, 15ft 11in, 10ft 11in, 12ft 9in and 13ft 11in. Concrete is used throughout and there are patches of external rendering. The structure was possibly originally camouflaged.
The pillbox was designed to be reached from ground level, but is now accessed by a narrow passage at the rear of the EXDO from which a ladder descends 5ft 9in to the original pillbox entrance passage. Internally, the walls are painted black over an earlier layer of whitewash. They measure 13ft 1/2in, 6ft 10in, 7ft 1in, 9ft, and 9ft, with an embrasure in each. Those to the north and north-east are of Bren-type. those to the south-east and south are smaller, with inward splays on either side and scars from shelves below, perhaps for ammunition. In the west wall a small blocked embrasure protected the original pillbox entrance, this was splayed internally to the top sides. Coat hooks and the remains of metal structures survive beside the door and in the south-western corner, possibly for ammunition racks or a telephone.
The EXDO post has a main room (communications/chart rom) with a smaller room (crew duty room) off the north-eastern side. The former is irregular with sides of 18ft 4in, 7ft 6in, 8ft 9in, 10ft 7in and 10ft 2in internally. A prominent observer embrasure, 1ft 11in high, was shortened for operational reasons, extending for 1ft 6in along the south wall (originally 4ft) and 4ft along the south-east wall (originally 6ft 5in). It has an external overhanging canopy and internal metal brackets for top-hinged shutters.
The remains of painted calibration markers survive on the lower surface of the embrasure. Projecting from the ceiling on the north-west side is a small turret, 2ft 11in square internally, with its own observation embrasure. Scars and timber fittings on the wall below are from a structure which allowed access to the turret. Coat hooks remain beside the doorway, and various scars on the whitewashed walls indicate the presence of shelving or racking. The crew duty room has sides of 6ft 11in, 5ft 2in, 7ft 11in and 5ft. It is whitewashed and has fittings for coat hooks and shelving. Two large holes low down in the north-west wall were for power cables.
Photos from the "Self Defence Dublin" students trip to Luxembourg to train with Darren Levine & Thierry Viatour
Photos were taken by Luxfoto.lu for KMW Europe
This meeting was held to brief the Kenyan Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons #TPNW with the aim of mobilising their support to have the Kenya Government sign the Treaty. It was jointly convened by the African Council of Religious Leaders - Religions for Peace and Interreligious Council of Kenya on the 8th March 2021. This is a global campaign by the ICAN Network and partners.
Finnish 1B division basketball at Tampere. Raholan Pyrkivä (Tampere) vs Namika Lappeenranta (Lappeenranta)
Tel Aviv, Israel
January 2008.
Members of the Israeli Defence Force at Tel Aviv beach.
Photograph: David Gannon / Worldreports
The length of the defence walls of Jerusalem is 4,018 meters, their average height is 12 meters and the average thickness of walls is 2.5 meters. The walls also contain 34 watchtowers and 8 gates.
The walls of Jerusalem were built originally to protect the borders of the city against intrusions.
Solomon, King David's son, built the first temple in the city and also extended the city walls in order to protect the temple.
In the 16th century, during the reign of the Ottoman empire in the region, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent decided to fully rebuild the city walls on the remains of the ancient walls. The construction lasted from 1535-1538 and these walls are the walls that exist today.
An excellent little museum in Norfolk based around a Second World War Hippodrome building, later converted into an R30 operations block. The radar station at Neatishead, operated by the RAF, was operational from 1940 and continues to contribute to the UK air defence picture through a Remote Radar Head (RRH) on site. Much of the surrounding site has been sold off; one corner being home to the Air Defence Museum, another operating a private robotics venture, and the final section, a ROTOR station and radar are currently closed but reportedly in a good state of repair.
While the museum has the name RAF, it is a charitable venture and not affiliated with the Royal Air Force (although I believe they have given their permission to use their name).